As always, many people contributed to this Octave release. A completelist of contributors may be found in the Octave manual.

About Octave:

GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intendedfor numerical computations. It provides capabilities for thenumerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems and forperforming other numerical experiments. It also provides extensivegraphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Octaveis normally used through its interactive command line interface, butit can also be used to write non-interactive programs. The Octavelanguage is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easilyportable. A full description of Octave capabilities is available athttp://octave.org/doc/interpreter/index.html.